Environmental health professor says microparticles of plastic, known to damage marine life, could be entering the airPeople could be breathing in microparticles of plastic, according to a leading environmental health expert, with as yet unknown consequences on health.Microplastics are known to be damaging to life in the oceans, with marine creatures mistaking them for food, and to be consumed by people eating seafood. But Frank Kelly, a professor of environmental health at King’s College London, told MPs investigating the issue that the particles could be being inhaled too. Continue reading...

The shift comes amid a decline in the use of coal and increase in the use of natural gas to generate electricity, energy officials sayCarbon dioxide emissions from the US’s energy sector fell in 2015 and now stand at 12% below 2005 levels, a drop mainly driven by the continuing collapse of the coal industry.Americans’ energy consumption resulted in the release of 5.2bn tons of CO last year, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), down from 5.4bn tons in 2014. The 12% cut since 2005 has come during a period in which the US economy has, adjusting for inflation, grown by 15%. Continue reading...

Former Irish cabinet minister says there are growing fears in Dublin that country could be used as back door into UKPoliticians in the Irish Republic fear their border towns could become the “new Calais” if Britain votes to leave the EU, as irregular migrants use Ireland as a back door into the UK, according to an EU commissioner.The commissioner for agriculture, Phil Hogan, said on Monday that there were growing fears in the republic that immigrants could use the border with Northern Ireland as a way into the UK if there was a Brexit result next month. Continue reading...

The chough had once vanished from England, but since 2002 there has been a growing colony of these fascinating birds in CornwallThe dawn chorus is deafening in my neck of the woods at the moment. The blackbirds are like loquacious honey-voiced DJs and the thrush is gloriously strident, but I’ve never heard two birds converse quite like a pair of choughs. Perhaps this is because these charismatic coastal-dwelling crows, with curved blood-red beaks, pair for life – although I’ve seen plenty of long-married human couples with far less conversation.Choughs vanished from England – eradicated by persecution and habitat loss – in the early 1970s but in 2001 a breeding pair unexpectedly flew in from Ireland and recolonised their old stronghold of Cornwall. This year, they are thriving, with a record 12 breeding pairs in the county, up from seven last summer. Continue reading...

Green lawyers criticise government after it emerged experts were commissioned to explore whether high-tech paint could reduce NO2 levelsLawyers have accused the government of pursuing gimmicks to tackle illegal air pollution, after it emerged experts were asked to examine whether high-tech paint could fix the problem.After losing a legal battle over pollution in the supreme court last year, the environment department last year announced plans for five clean air zones which will not affect nine in 10 vehicles.

The tough, innovative and resilient UK solar industry can outlast this government’s energy policiesKing Canute is alive and well in Britain.

Two activists in Colombia talk about their hopes and fears over bringing an end to the world’s longest running civil warFather Alberto Franco has spent much of his life speaking out for the most vulnerable people in Colombia – men and women who have been kicked off their land and attacked by armed groups serving powerful elites. He has been threatened and persecuted, so perhaps it is natural that he is “moderately pessimistic” about hopes for an end to the world’s longest civil war.“For us, the end of the armed conflict is not peace. Peace is building a more just society, a more inclusive society, respectful of human rights and the environment,” says Franco, who is a leader with the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission. “While there are interests in the land, there will be social conflicts.” Continue reading...

Massive water transfer schemes are no solution to Iran’s growing problems with drought

Iran’s salt desert, New Suez Canal and British astronaut Tim Peak’s snap of UK under an aurora were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last monthDasht-e Kavir, the swirling landscape of Iran’s salt desert, is reminiscent of an abstract painting. With temperatures reaching 50C in the summer, this area sees little precipitation, but runoff from mountains creates seasonal lakes and marshes. Extreme heat causes the water to evaporate, leaving behind clays and sand soils with a high concentration of minerals. The “brushstroke” patterns are geological layers eroded primarily by wind. Along the left side of the image we can see part of an area known as the “devil’s dunes” because it was believed to be haunted by evil spirits. This belief likely originated from its hostile conditions, and the early travellers who did attempt to cross it probably never returned due to starvation or dehydration. Continue reading...

The EU has a reputation for legislating to protect nature, whereas the UK drags its heels. Without us, perhaps animals and their habitats might get a better dealNothing oozes status like a man with an endangered alligator lizard draped over his shoulder that he has bought illegally through a German reptile trade show. These are people not content with a pet bearded dragon or a pet corn snake. They want more. They want something no one else has, even if having it contributes to the extinction of these unusual lizards in the wild.Thank goodness, then, that the Guardian exposed this illegal market last year, and that the EU committed on Thursday to tightening the loopholes in the illegal trade of reptiles such as these beautiful endangered lizards. I’d like to say that Britain was a key part of this story, but our record on tackling wildlife crime isn’t brilliant. Although we talk the talk (remember this?) in three out of the past four years the government has attempted to close our National Wildlife Crime Unit, an important department for monitoring such things as illegal pet trade activity. Thankfully the EU forced us forward – on this issue at least. Continue reading...

Air pollution kills 28,000 people every year in the UK. But the solution might lie in a hi-tech tower that sucks up harmful particlesHigh in the skies over London, the UK’s first air pollution monitoring squad have been using the latest sensors to chart the levels of ozone and nitrogen dioxide in our atmosphere. The team is highly trained, each equipped with a hi-tech backpack, and proficient in social media. Which all sounds relatively standard, apart from the fact that it is entirely made up of pigeons.Using one of the UK’s best-known feathered friends as a publicity stunt for air pollution awareness was the brainchild of Plume Labs, which has created an app for monitoring pollution on the go. It follows on the heels of similar apps released in the past two years, ranging from UCLA’s AirForU to BreezoMeter, the brainchild of Israeli engineer Ran Korber, who was looking to buy a house for his family far away from polluted environments. Continue reading...

The state would reap billions of dollars in revenue by hosting a dump, says royal commissioner and former governor Kevin ScarceSouth Australia should seize the opportunity to store the world’s high-level nuclear waste, the state’s nuclear royal commission has recommended.Related: Nuclear waste is zombie waste: Australia must not become a dumping ground | Dave Sweeney Continue reading...

Researchers to investigate how disease is passed between red squirrels, whose numbers have declined drastically

Malaysian palm giant, IOI, lost business after it was suspended from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil’s certification scheme over deforestation allegations in IndonesiaOne of the world’s largest palm oil producers is suing the green body that suspended its sustainability certification last month because of allegations it had deforested Indonesian rainforests.The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body set up by industry and NGOs to address environmental concerns about the commodity’s production, confirmed it had been served with a lawsuit by the Malaysian palm giant, IOI. Continue reading...

Bill Shorten fails to realise world has ‘moved on from ideology’, says PM – but Climate Institute contradicts himMalcolm Turnbull has warned Australia would lose vital “leverage” in international negotiations under Labor’s plan to dramatically increase Australia’s emissions reduction target.On the first official day of the election campaign the prime minister criticised the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, for failing to realise that the world had “moved on from ideology” in the climate change debate towards practical negotiations. Continue reading...

Isle of May, Firth of Forth All around there are the mouths of the burrows where, not far below the surface, puffins incubate eggsOn the Isle of May, off the coast of Fife, the seabirds have arrived, and they are feeling broody. From my vantage point on the south cliffs, I have an unfettered view of two shags bedded down comfortably by the water’s edge. Black plumage glistens green in the sunlight. As I watch, one stands to stretch and straighten out her wings, and I count three pale eggs: long and ovoid, like pills.Their oversized nests are mere piles of rotting seaweed, but seem luxurious compared with those of the kittiwakes and razorbills on the precipitous rockface above – mere toeholds in the cliff, streaked with guano. Further down, the sleek, monochrome guillemots crowd on salt-sprayed ledges. Herring gulls edge between them, feigning nonchalance as they scrounge for speckled eggs. Continue reading...

The energy internet, the ‘smart’ grid, solar energy and battery storage are converging and the economic benefits are clearChange is coming to the energy landscape. A transition to a new energy economy is happening. In a country like Australia – awash with energy both under and above the ground – this transition could be rapid and profound. There is a lot to lose for those who can’t keep pace.Last month the government committed $1bn to the Clean Energy Innovation Fund. The fund will have “the primary purpose of earning income or a profitable return” on debt and equity extended to renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-emissions technologies. While many will argue the right way for that money to be used, investment like this is well timed. Continue reading...

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 11 May 1916Nowhere, surely, do the bluebells grow more luxuriantly or look more ravishingly beautiful than they do under the beeches in the grounds of the Queen’s Cottage at Kew. Here the varying thicknesses of sheltering boughs make varying shades of colour in the sea of flowers - now deep, now pale, now lilac of the most warm and tender hue. It is the most fugitive colour to catch and describe, but it hangs in the memory to solace and encourage. It is like a butterfly’s wing. When you get the first glimpse of it through the trees on a sunny day, it seems incredible. Looked at close, each fluted bell seems one colour; pale or bright, it is blue. But the bracts are red and the effect in mass is shot, and now one and now the other of the two colours prevails.The sunlight streams in shafts between the tree-boles or drips in golden rain through the young foliage; the wide grass tracks are strewn with a warm brown carpet made of the outer husks of the beech leaves; the squirrels flicker from branch to branch; the air is full of the song of birds and the perfume from a million bells. Here and there Stars of Bethlehem look like twenty-branched candlesticks, set to celebrate the thanksgiving service of the spring. Continue reading...

New UK government tests confirm that diesel cars produce a lot more air pollution in real-world driving when compared with the legal tests. Those sold since 2009 emitted six times more nitrogen oxides, on average.Compared with the stricter standards applied to petrol cars, the average diesel sold between 2009 and 2015 emitted 19 times more nitrogen oxides. Continue reading...

UN Economic and Social Council says Britain has not met its obligations to discuss the impact of nuclear accident with neighbouring countriesThe British government has run into a major new problem with the Hinkley Point C nuclear project, with a United Nations committee ruling that the UK failed to consult European countries properly over potential environmental risks.

To celebrate naturalist’s 90th birthday, we asked Guardian readers to share how he’s shaped their livesI like watching all of his wildlife and nature documentaries. He is my favourite guy. I like that he gets to see lots of rare animals. He saw a bird that could make a noise like a chainsaw. My favourite moment is when he went to Argentina to see the giant dinosaur, the titanosaur. Continue reading...

Of all his amazing experiences, the television legend recalls his first dive on the reef as the most memorable. But it’s dying before our eyesThe patron saint of quality television is 90 years old today. When his Great Barrier Reef series was broadcast at the start of the year, it was reported that this was likely to be his last series, or at least his last made on location. But it’s difficult to believe David Attenborough won’t always be around. For most people who grew up in 20th-century Britain, he is not just a national treasure but a permanent fixture. But then, that’s what we thought about the Great Barrier Reef.Just before the reef series was broadcast, Attenborough told a journalist that his first dive on the reef is the moment in his career he remembers most vividly: “Suddenly, this amazing world with a thousand things you didn’t know existed is revealed right in front of you, all wonderful colours and shapes. On land, the rainforest is comparable – but the difference is, you can walk for a day and see absolutely nothing. ‘Where are all these bloody monkeys they are always on about?’ But on a reef you see everything immediately.” Continue reading...

Designer Dan Vo is a proponent of the zero-waste movement within the fashion industryAt first appearances, Dan Vo’s new range of wool jackets for men appear to be pieces of well-made clothing with the price tag to match. Behind that appearance however is a precise method of design, where every part of the jacket has been cut exactly from a piece of fabric in a jigsaw pattern to ensure there is no waste of material in making it.Vo, a Scotland-based fashion designer, has designed a coat in which the uncut arms, collar, front, back, pockets and other sections all fit together perfectly on the piece of fabric. When they are cut out to make the jacket, she can then avoid wasting material, as is typically the case when conventional coats are made. Continue reading...

In his wonderfully honest memoir cum manifesto Tim Winton traces how he came to revere the natural world he grew up in – and long to preserve itIsland Home is Tim Winton’s insightful and vibrant testament to what it is to be a non-indigenous Australian living in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Less than 3% of Australia’s population can trace their ancestry in the country to a time that predates photography. Despite up to 60,000 years of continuous human habitation, it is still the landscape that leaves the strongest impression. Australia is “a place where there is more landscape than culture… Everything we do... is still overborne and underwritten by the seething tumult of nature”.Related: Interview: Tim Winton Continue reading...

When photographer Levon Biss turned his lens on the insects his son was collecting in the garden, it opened up a miniature world in which art meets science to dazzling effectTwo years ago, exhausted by the frantic pressures of commercial portraiture, photographer Levon Biss was searching for a way to relax. His son Sebastian, then six, found the answer in their back garden. “My boy likes insects,” says Biss. “He’s always in the garden trying to find them and play with them. I started shooting insects he’d caught, so that he could see them clearly and be proud of finding them.” Making detailed portraits of insect specimens proved to be the perfect antidote to the trigger-happy, “disposable” photography that Biss feels is the current fashion. “I wanted a project that made me think, that was a challenge,” he says, and he gradually developed a technique so specialised and laborious, only a photographer of extreme patience and dedication could sustain it.First, the pinned insect is mounted on an adapted microscope-stand in front of a camera with a macro lens. Biss then divides the insect into 30 sections, to be photographed separately at close range. “When you get to this magnification,” he explains, “the depth of field is so shallow, there’s only a minute plane of focus.” To render, for instance, a whole wing-casing in focus, it must be photographed around 750 times, with each photo taken 10 microns apart. Those 750 images are then painstakingly compiled into a composite, using a variety of sophisticated software. Continue reading...

Police arrest 66 people after climate change activists block train tracks and entrance to Newcastle harbour as part of global Break Free From Fossil Fuels actionsPolice have arrested 66 people in anti-fossil fuel protests in the Newcastle, home to Australia’s biggest coal export port.Hundreds of kayaks and boats blocked the entrance to Newcastle harbour in an attempt to stop coal ships from leaving or entering. Another group blocked train tracks used to transport coal on the Sandgate Bridge in the city’s north west. Continue reading...

A look back at the best known, and not so well known, achievements of Sir David Attenborough to mark his 90th birthday on Sunday. Attenborough influenced more than just nature documentaries, giving the green light to Monty Python and live snooker while head of a fledgling BBC2. He also has a menagerie of species named after him Continue reading...

Across central Africa, militias have turned the savannah into killing fieldsBrigadier Venant Mumbere Muvesevese, a 35-year-old father of four, became the 150th ranger in the last 10 years to be killed protecting lowland gorillas, elephants and other wildlife in Virunga national park last month. He and his young Congolese colleague, Fidèle Mulonga Mulegalega, were surrounded by local militia, captured and then summarily executed.Related: Burning the ivory is just the beginning Continue reading...

Virunga national park’s warden credits rangers with keeping mountain gorillas and visitors safe despite conflict fuelled by plunder of natural resourcesA ranger in Virunga national park has a 44% chance of suffering a violent death during their career, the highest rate of service deaths for any national park in the world. Yet, of the 34 rangers who have lost their lives since I was appointed as Virunga’s warden in 2008, 27 were killed protecting civilians and not the park’s wildlife.Over the years, a ranger’s responsibility – they are required to uphold the law across Congo’s vast wilderness areas – has stretched them beyond the traditional function of protecting wildlife. Instead, Virunga’s rangers have been placed at the frontline of a deeply complex conflict which has been described by Oxfam as the greatest human tragedy since the second world war, and which has led to the deaths of more than six million civilians. Continue reading...

Russia cannot be allowed to block this vital plan to protect the oceansThe science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke once observed that our planet has been given a singularly inappropriate name. We should not call it Earth, he observed. We should call it Ocean.It is a well made point. The one truly remarkable feature of our world is not its solid interior but the presence of a great layer of liquid water that stretches across much of its surface: our oceans. Thanks to them, Earth resembles a large, blue marble when viewed from space. By contrast, the solar system’s other planets consist of globes of rock or giant balls of gas. We live in a blue world of water that provided homes for the evolution of early livings beings and that continues to nurture us today. We owe our existence and our survival to our oceans and we should take care to protect them. They may cover 360 million square kilometres of Earth’s surface, but that represents only the thinnest of coats on our planet, one roughly equivalent to the skin that protects an apple. Continue reading...

The Ross Sea is the last intact marine ecosystem on EarthOver the next few weeks, a discreet but vital diplomatic campaign will be launched to try to save one of the most remote regions of the world: the Ross Sea in Antarctica.Marine conservationists, who have been pressing to set up a no-fishing zone for several years, say it is now paramount that their plan to create a 1.25 million square kilometre “no take” area in the Ross Sea is successful. They believe failure would seriously jeopardise future plans to protect the polar regions, which are now bearing the brunt of global warming. Continue reading...

Rather than hold back the river, this Oxfordshire home allows water to flow under the house and drain back out againJoanna and Martin O’Callaghan, 58-year-old chartered surveyors, married for 30 years and parents of two, are showing strong signs of being middle-aged hipsters. The living room wall of their newly built larch-clad house in the south Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay is lined with original 1980s singles by Prince, the Jam, the Smiths, the Specials and Grace Jones. A woodburner roars away in the centre of a vogueishly “zoned” rather than fully open-plan living space. Taking pride of place in the garden are neat stacks of copper beech logs – the result of a new wood-chopping hobby.The biggest problem was that it was a zone-three flood plain – but that is also what makes the site so alluring Continue reading...

A legal case will consider if the emissions of 50 fossil fuel companies violate the human rights of those hit by extreme weatherCan Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP be held accountable for the vulnerable communities most affected by climate change? It’s a question a legal case in the Philippines could answer.Last month, lawyers for the petitioners met with the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR), a constitutional body tasked with investigating human rights violations. Their goal was to identify expert witnesses for a hearing into the liability of 50 of the biggest fossil fuel companies for violating the human rights of Filipinos as a result of catastrophic climate change. Continue reading...

At £25,000 it’s being hailed as an ‘affordable’ option, and an astonishing 400,000 have been ordered. But is it worth the asking price?It’s being marketed as the model that will finally make electric cars mainstream. To get one you will need a £1,000 deposit, and then have to wait for at least two years before it is delivered. But that hasn’t deterred enthusiastic motorists. So far 400,000 people worldwide have pre-ordered the hi-tech, super-stylish and (for some countries) “affordable” Tesla Model 3, a figure unheard of in the auto industry. So what’s such a big deal? Continue reading...

Llangranog, Ceredigion For joyful dancing delight, for the palpable sense of fun and mischief, the raven is my choiceWind and wave hurl against the cliff, roar through the inlet, spinning white rosettes of spume in a vortex, a wavering pale column that snakes and twists into the air and bends landwards. A raven quartering the pasture above accepts the opportunity for play. He soars high, slipping the buffets of the gale, then folds his wings, drops like a dark stone into the white heart of the spray before rebounding and diving once more.His mate arrives, scolding tersely at the lateness of her dinner. Four choughs come squealing along the cliff edge. Her impatience set aside, she joins him in harrying them away. The air-mastery of these birds is breathtaking. Peregrine, goshawk, merlin, eagle – each is impressive in its way. But for joyful dancing delight, for the palpable sense of fun and mischief, the raven is my choice. From the path round Pendinaslochtyn I watch through a glass as they bully the choughs off their territory, then careen swiftly back along the wind. Continue reading...

Brush-tailed bettong, three-toed snake-tooth skink, swift parrot and types of orchid and albatross listedNearly 50 new species of flora and fauna have been added without fanfare to the federal government’s list of threatened species, including nine that are critically endangered.Among the species to be added to the list under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act were the brush-tailed bettong (endangered), the three-toed snake-tooth skink (vulnerable), the swift parrot (upgraded from endangered to critically endangered), and several types of orchid and albatross. Continue reading...

As another federal election looms, we need to keep in mind that violence and violent imagery do not prove passion for a nationLet’s redefine Australian patriotism.It’s time, because on the eve of a two-month long federal election campaign, we’re about to be subject to all manner of evocations from public figures about their advancement of the national interest and their love of their country. Continue reading...

Walter Micklethwait’s award-winning hut-turned-distillery in Scotland did not have change-of-use consent, it has emergedIs a shed still a shed if it is also a piano bar, a distillery and a small farm shop? Highland council will have to decide after it emerged that the recent winner of Shed of the Year did not have planning permission to change from a disused hen coop to a small enterprise of gin-making and egg-selling.Walter Micklethwait won the award in 2015 for transforming his dilapidated old wooden hut into a wild west-style saloon, farm shop and fully functioning Crossbill gin distillery.

Capacity market scheme to keep power stations on standby for peak demand could add £38 a year to each household billThe government has been accused of burying bad news during an election period after publishing a report (pdf) saying an emergency scheme to keep the lights on could add £38 a year to each household bill.

As flames rip through Alberta, we look at how putting out small fires can help to fuel increasingly catastrophic events as our climate gets hotter and drierBy dousing small, regular fires, forest managers are creating the conditions for cataclysmic events, scientists have said.Fires in temperate forests are generally increasing in size and area. This is partly because of climate change. Fire seasons in many parts of the world are getting longer and drier. Continue reading...

Letter calls for rapid shift to renewable energy after natural wonder affected by worst coral bleaching event yet seenTourism operators have broken their silence about the worst crisis ever faced by the Great Barrier Reef, with more than 170 businesses and individuals pleading with the Australian government to take urgent action to tackle climate change and ensure the reef survives.Related: Money trumpeted in budget for Great Barrier Reef previously announced Continue reading...

For more than 100 years, tourists and photographers have flocked to America’s national parks. Tim Dowling salutes the spectacular lakes, canyons – and rangers• America’s national parks in picturesSome years ago, my family and I paid a visit to the Rainbow Bridge national monument in Utah. It’s a natural stone arch, roughly the same height as the Statue of Liberty, and so remote that it wasn’t located by white people until 1909. It used to require a desert hike of several days to get to the bridge, but ever since the dam turned the Glen Canyon into Lake Powell, it’s only a two-mile stroll from a convenient landing dock. When we arrived, no one was around, apart from a park ranger stationed on the path, waiting for us, ready to answer any questions we might have, and to ask us to refrain from walking under the arch, because it is a site of tremendous religious significance for several Native American tribes.This federal employee standing in the middle of the desert – engaging, articulate, genial – seemed as much a monument as the bridge itself. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who enjoyed his job so much. We took turns posing for photographs wearing his hat. Continue reading...

Photographers have been inspired by the majesty of America’s national parks since they were founded more than a century ago• Tim Dowling hits the road Continue reading...

Re-use of spaces is the sustainable solution to overflowing graveyards, if done sensitively, says one of Britain’s biggest cemeteriesOne of Britain’s biggest cemeteries is leading the way on a solution to the nationwide shortage of grave spaces that’s reaching crisis levels.Experts say finding ways to stop cemeteries overflowing is vital, but the most effective way of doing so – re-using graves – challenges some people’s deeply held beliefs about burial. Continue reading...

Jonathan and Angela Scott: After the ivory burn, it’s up to all of us to make sure the pledges made there are honouredPeople have always been smitten by the beauty of elephant ivory, as I discovered for myself while travelling overland from London to Johannesburg in 1974.I am not exactly sure where I bought the small ivory carving that would haunt me in years to come. I think it was Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), 2000 km upstream from the mouth of the mighty Congo River, home during the 1880s to Mohammed Bin Alfan Murjebi alias Tipu Tip, the infamous Zanzibari who traded ivory and slaves. Continue reading...

American alligators, sea stars and endangered Saharan Addax are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Continue reading...

Raging wildfires have brought an ill-informed focus on this quintessentially Canadian place, which had a character long before the extraction plantsFort McMurray is a real place, not a Dante-esque metaphor for hell, despite the wildfires currently raging, which has forced its entire evacuation.An urban service area at the heart of the municipality of Wood Buffalo in north-eastern Alberta, one of Canada’s western provinces and currently in a state of emergency, it is not some frontier gold rush town huddled under a blanket of perpetual snow. It is not a work camp, although different work and service camps located at the mining sites, from 20 to 100 miles away, circle it. And it is not actually very far north in Canadian terms: the boreal forest just nudges the edge of the near north, and the far and the extreme north (yes, Canada has a near, far, and extreme north) are much farther beyond. It lies roughly between the longitudes of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and no one would dare to call either Edinburgh or Aberdeen remote. Continue reading...

Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national parks, the US Postal Service has issued 16 stamps that depict the beauty and diversity of these protected areas. The stamps collectively tell the story of the parks, from the glaciers of Alaska to the Everglades of Florida Continue reading...

Microbe populations make up 11-31% of living matter in the ocean seabed, but decline significantly as oceans warm

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